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Scrounged Runs. The production had no sooner opened, though, when the jester started to steal the hero's lines. Met Second Baseman Felix Millan, who made only nine errors all season, gave the A's the first game when he let an easy ground ball slip past his glove. "The ball never bounce," said the Puerto Rican sadly after the 2-1 loss. In view of the anemia that was suddenly afflicting red-blooded A's hitters like Reggie Jackson, Williams could only welcome the gift. Said he: "We'll scrounge all the runs...
Mays, in his last season as a player, lashed a single to center to put the Mets ahead, 7-6. Two consecutive errors by second baseman Mike Andrews opened the way for three more runs and a Mets lead...
What makes his success this season all the more remarkable is that many teams are defending against him by using an "Aaron shift"−moving the second baseman and the rightfielder to the left side of the diamond to counter his pull-hitting power. Pitchers are giving him nothing but bad stuff or walking him intentionally. "Hell," says Aaron, "I don't even see good pitches in batting practice anymore...
...where he hit .336 and was named rookie of the year. Next season he moved up to Jacksonville and led the Sally League in everything but hot-dog sales. He was named the league's most valuable player, and he also committed more errors than any other second baseman. It was then that the Braves decided to put him in the outfield. The first black to play in the Sally League, Aaron could not eat or stay in the same hotels with the white players; he had to find lodgings in black homes. Aaron got a lot of verbal...
Hero status is something new to Blasingame. He joined the Hawks as a second baseman in 1967 after a dozen so-so seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals and four other U.S. teams. Like many of the 16 Americans now playing beisuboru in Japan (league rules limit the number of foreign players to two per team), he had to be rechristened so that Japanese fans could pronounce his name. Today Don Lee Blasingame of Corinth, Miss., is known throughout Japan as Breiza ("the Blazer," a nickname he earned with the Cardinals for his speed). "Breiza sounds snappy," says...